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You have a Kinect? Are you looking for news on E3 about Kinect games? The Microsoft press conference is not until tomorrow, but already news and videos are coming out. Two new titles for the system were revealed by none other than Kudo Tsunoda as none other than Star Wars and Disneyland Adventures. More on this games, as we find possibly tomorrow, but for now, satisfy your appetite with this video: *video is in French. Via Bamar Live Follow

There is something magical about hearing a story. Not a story someone embroiders just for the telling, or a tale someone recounts of their past misadventures or what happened to them at lunch this past Wednesday — an actual story, from a book, that someone reads to you. It’s an early memory of many people, an often treasured memory of childhood and the warmth of bedtime, maybe a teddy bear or a glass of milk, and someone’s rich, loving voice reading out the words on the pages so your imagination can fill in the gaps. We lose some of that magic when we grow older, when we begin to read for ourselves rather than have things read to us. There are audiobooks, of course, which can tell a grand tale with voices and music and a certain mysterious richness of their own, but they are a special case, a genre

AT&T confirmed this week that they are implementing caps on their broadband services. In the United States, they are the first provider to take that step. AT&T DSL subscribers will be limited to 150 GB of uploads and downloads per month. U-Verse subscribers will be limited to 250GB. If you exceed the monthly caps three times, you will be charged $10 for every 50GB above the cap. AT&T is using this method to reign in heavy data users. To get to their limits of 150GB and 250GB they ran tests to see what their customers were using. While other providers haven’t followed suit just yet, you can be they are watching very carefully. At first, I was astonished that a data cap was set. How dare they limit the data I can access when I pay for a service? Would I have to tell my friends that they can’t download

This week’s OGOTW is a zombie-lite game in which one little guy has to defend his backyard from hordes of zombified dolls with various weapons and barricades. The light hearted music and little “ow”s that come from the zombies are a pleasant contradiction to the point of the game, which makes it more amusing – at least to me. Enjoy! Follow